Squier Classic Vibe 70s Strat Unboxing & First Impressions
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Another #guitar #unboxing... today it's a #Squier Classic Vibe 70s strat
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Great review John and a big shout out to Nick for donating the guitar to such a worthy cause!
I own a few CV Squier’s and love them.. great guitars at a nice price
Position 2 is quacky. I like it. 🦆
Tuesday was my NGD, as my Pacifica 112L was ready. As a left, the only choice is the "natural" colour, which doesn't do it for me. So, I have a tech who refinishes guitars and now she's a lovely matte Sedona Red stain with black pickguard and knobs. The pickups in the bridge and middle are stock, but now the H has a chrome cover and the middle SC is black. The neck pickup is a Filtertron clone in chome and black, combining the look of the other two. She looks and plays great and I'm taking my first tentative steps to playing some rockabilly.
I love the big headstock, 🤟🤟
"stratty thing on a stratty day and a stratty tone" 😂 Nice off-the-cuff playing throughout the review. They seem like a nice little guitar.
Ive got a Squier Classic Vibe 50's Tele. Great guitars.
This squier classic vibe 70 seems like the old squier vintage modified 70 with different pickups that I had a few years ago.
I want one of these and vintage white 50s. Going to be letting my amazing Harley Benton Fusion T go to try and score one
I'm really looking forward to finishing my Vintage Strat rebuild BUT I sprayed it in Nitro and it takes 4-6 weeks to dry - I have a headline Gig in the City Centre 30th October, I'm hoping I can use it for that but I really think I'll have to put it together 'Unpolished' - I do think it'll be one hell of a guitar when it's done tho!
I hope the Nitro paint is fully dried in time for you gig, you can't polish
it until the paint has fully set, i made that mistake, and had to start again.
@@Barbarapape Exactly Mate, it will be around 5 weeks when I put it together, it's just I don't physically have the time to polish so I'm gonna fit it together and play my gig then disassemble it after, it'll just look Matt finish, maybe that's better who knows?
Your vintage salty dog build looks the nuts.
@@MrMichaelConstantine Thanks Man, I never expected to have to wait so long for it to dry, a couple of days and that's it but 6 Weeks!!! Oh well patience is a virtue but I dying to hear it when it's all been nailed together 🤟
Would love to see the new paint job!
Excellent video and review John thanks.
When you open a Gibson box and out comes a Fender... that's how you play AUTHENTC!
When you open a Gibson box and pull out a Harley Benton box, 47 seconds in, then pull out a Fender, class.
You can't go wrong with a classic vibe.
Indeed it does sound like a Strat! I rented the same one with pau ferro fretboard and didn't buy, lacked sparkle and spank of the maple one. Very good guitar at any price point.
Cracking video John.
Really interesting to see the comparison between the Classic Vibe and the Sire. Two of the 3 guitars I'm torn between. The Vintage V6 is the 3rd. Some of the higher spec'd Jet guitars are intriguing too
Nice budget guitar, one of the better Squiers , a cheap David Gilmour look, great guitar to mod, bump up the pick ups. You play so well John, excellent again.
I have a Classic Vibe 62 strat that is basically a 'Gilmour model', black body, maple board, white pups and knobs to boot, just lacks the short trem for the 'full-on' DG look! Nice job although I was not impressed with the mini pots and cheap wiring, all of which I replaced...
Alternatives:
Cort g260 (vintage type) or G280 (more modern)
Tokai AST 52 (China)
FGN Boundary Odyssey ( Hardtail, Japan)
G&L Tribute: Legacy, S500.
ESP LTD SN 200 W or WM ( out of production, wilkinson trem)
Vintage v6
Yamaha Pacifica 112v or 212v.
Ibanez AZES or SA 260, 360,460.
I actually like the sounds you’re getting here John. I have one complaint. Why don’t they do a bullet style truss rod adjustment? Instant 70s look and very functional. Probably budget related.
I love your T-shirt!
thank you for review
Man, i wish i could play 1% that good. That PRS you bought for your daughter looks great, will she ever see it again?
That's CGS mate, not me... He's the one with hair 🤣👍
@@JRobsonGuitar Sorry John, wondered where my comment went. I still wish i could play 1% as good as you too.
Getting 1 for Christmas this year HSS in Black just like yours John. I will change nothing. Think it will sound just fine thru my Fender Blues Junior.
Does this classic vibe 70's hum when you turn on the volume knob?
Will be interested to hear the comparison of the Sire Larry Carlton HSS Strat vs the Squier CV HSS 70's Strat. From what I can remember doesn't the Sire have humbucking coil splitting so you get the choice to use it in humbucker or single coil mode? Can the Squier CV be modded to do the same?
Anything can be modded Mike. : )
For the price of a Classic vibe, I'll get 2 Harley Benton Vintage Strats and a 5 Watt tube Amp 🤓🤘🏻
Stratocaster from the Seventies have become vintage? I was there at the time, and I remember the general thought was that all new guitars were crap, and only Fenders and Gibsons from the Fifties and early Sixties were worth anything. I have a '74 Les Paul Special , which was a repro of a '58 Les Paul. Maybe I have a jewel and don't even know it!
Tones seemed a bit meh, but I love me a giant strat headstock! :)
I agree with John regarding the large headstock, they just look way too big.
The sound from this guitar is way too twangy and thin for my tastes.
I have a classic vibe 60's in gold, and it sounds way better than this one
with a smoother fuller sound.
I don't know what settings were used on the Yamaha amp, but sorry to say
this sample just doesn't sound like a classic vibe with alnico pickups should.
I agree about the 70's headstock. I just hate them! They spoil the whole design of the guitar. Apparently the reason they are so big is that CBS, who had just taken over Fender at the time, wanted to have a bigger Fender logo so they increased the size of the headstock for just that reason.
@@bohma7519 The sale of Fender to CBS was a disaster in many ways.
They also introduced the 3 screw neck plates just to save 1 screw!
The quality went downhill to the point that they couldn't give the guitars
away, you had to buy a bunch of them to make a good one out of the parts.
This is how Eric Clapton built his infamous "Blackie" Strat.
Fender has always struggled with quality, it took me a long time to find
a USA built standard Strat that i was happy with.
Compared to the usual sounds you usually get out of any guitar, this 1 is poor. Unexpected.
Squire's meh, Strat's Meh Meh Meh.......... the box looked good though, like putting droppings in a Quality Street tin
Nice looking guitar apart from the headstock. Mediocre tones if I'm being honest.